K D Ewing, BONFIRE OF THE LIBERTIES. NEW LABOUR, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE RULE OF LAW Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), 2010. xxiii + 310 pp. ISBN 9780199584772 (hb). £50. ISBN 9780199584789 (pb). £19.99.
| Author | Janet McLean |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2011.0014 |
| Published date | 01 January 2011 |
| Date | 01 January 2011 |
| Pages | 154-156 |
As its title suggests, this book is a damning assessment of civil liberties since New Labour. It is not simply that the UK Parliament conferred extended powers on the police and intelligence services as a response to the events of 11th September, 2001 and 7th July 2005, but that even
In the tradition of W I Jennings, the author is focussed on the conferral of power. He systematically documents the great expansion of the powers of the police and other public agencies: these include surveillance and interception powers; limitations on freedoms of speech, assembly, the press, and the rights of whistle blowers; and increased powers of detention. He questions the need for such broad powers and the effectiveness of the controls on their exercise. No one comes out unscathed: neither the predictable villains (the Interception Commissioner, the House of Commons, the Hutton Inquiry, the judiciary); the less predictable villains (local...
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